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Breathing Life into WD-3
March 23, 2006 After being offline for a few days, and inactive
for a couple of years, we are trying to breath some life back into
WD-3.
At the very least we want to put the excellent
material contributed by various Windows driver development experts
back into the community.
We'll just have to see where it goes from
there.
Our thanks go to Walter Oney, founder of WD-3,
for his time and effort in creating WD-3 in the first place.
Thanks, Walter!
Thomas F. Divine, Acting Editor
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See You at WinHEC 2006
May 23-25, 2006, Washington State
Convention and Trade Center, Seattle, WA.
Details at the
Microsoft WinHEC site.  |
WD-3 Subscription Service No
Longer Available
At this point we are breathing some life back
into WD-3, but haven't decided whether to support a "subscription
service".
We'll just have to see what sort of interest
there is in the site from developers like yourself.
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Getting Trace from NETCFG.DLL
by Stephan Wolf - March 17, 2006This paper describes how you can enable debug
trace messages in the network configuration subsystem of the
Microsoft® Windows® family of operating systems listed below.
This article is published on
NDIS.com.
Read
the whole article
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Extending The Microsoft PassThru NDIS Intermediate
Driver--Part 3
Supporting Windows XP 64-Bit Edition
by Thomas Divine - March 15, 2004Do people whisper behind your back, "he's not computing with
all 64 bits, poor fellow"? If so, Thomas will show you how to
prove them wrong, at least with respect to your NDIS Intermediate
Drivers.
Read the whole article
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NDIS Driver Compile Flags
by Stephan Wolf - March 15, 2004From a simple and portable way to write Windows drivers for
network interface cards, NDIS has grown to Hydra-headed monster with
multiple versions, serious platform incompatibilities, and
programming rules that normal mortals can't understand. One of the
ways you cope with cross-platform issues is by using the many
conditional compilation switches that are built-in to NDIS.H. In
this article, Netzwerkmeister Wolf explains how to use them. Alles
klar!
Read the whole article
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All About Removal Relations
by Mark Roddy
The Windows PnP manager uses Device Relations queries to gather
information about the PnP relationships between a given device node and other
device nodes in the system. A response to a RemovalRelations query is a declaration by a device node that,
if it is removed, some other device node will also be removed. Note that this
sort of device node relationship is not the same as a bus driver parent device
node/child device node relationship. As a consequence of correctly using
Removal Relations, Query Remove operations will be applied to all device nodes
related to a specific device node through a Removal Relations query, allowing
each such device node to allow or deny the remove operations as appropriate.
Read the whole article
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Developer Tool Focus
Mark Roddy has continually updated DDKBuild
tool. It now supports integration of the DDK Build process with
Visual Studio .NET and provides support for some flavors of Windows
Vista.
Visit Mark's DDKBUILD page
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Why it's so important that you check for NULL pointers in certain
IRP dispatch routines.
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The name speaks for itself...
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